COP26 Leaders Should Go Vegan To Help Save The Planet

Veggly, the world’s leading dating app for vegans and vegetarians, has shared new survey data from its userbase of over 600,000 members.

The vegan dating app has for years monitored the world’s growing plant-based attitudes with carefully designed surveys. The most recent research has found that vegans are nearly as strongly concerned about the environmental impact of animal agriculture as they are with livestock welfare.

Near all (97%) of vegan Veggly users regard veganism as environmentally crucial, and around two-thirds (62.1%) say environmental concerns as a key reason for transitioning. To add to this, the size and total land occupation of livestock is seen as just as concerning for vegans as carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

Veggly’s research has found that this perspective is shared across male, female, and non-binary vegans across all world regions.

Commenting on the results, Founder of Veggly, Alex Felipelli, said: “World leaders at COP26 should pay attention to these findings. The world’s vegan population is growing, and the sentiment is very clear. More and more people are calling for a world that operates a plan-based food system. It’s just a matter of time now. 

“There are many excellent reasons to go vegan, so we have found it fascinating to see which motivations are the most popular. We are very pleased to see animal welfare is number one as veganism ultimately gives a voice to the voiceless. At the same time, we can see that the environment is a very strong factor as well. A vegan diet is clearly the best thing for the planet; let’s just hope world leaders listen to the science and make the switch as well.”

There are solid scientific grounds that plant-based diets are better for our planet.

Livestock farming occupies the majority of fertile land (over 80%) while yielding a relatively small portion of the world’s protein and calorie output (less than 20%). A plant-based food economy would be more land-efficient and would allow for much more comprehensive reforestation and carbon capture, all the while heavily curbing livestock methane emissions.

Veggly’s quantitative confirmation of environmental enthusiasm among vegans indicates that COP26 attendees might benefit from partnering with plant-based movements towards a reducetarian, even if not strictly vegan, future for humanity.

Veggly, which now has over 6000,000, is available throughout the world (users in 181 countries), Veggly is set to continue its rapid growth thanks to its growing army of vegan volunteers around the world who have worked together to translate the app from English into Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Danish and Polish, with many more languages on the way, including Japanese.